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pagan terror
Dec. 1st, 2017 08:30 amThis week's Stupid Comics is/are culled from a stack of Catholic Church sponsored comics that I've collected over the years; TOPIX was a Minneapolis based comic book that featured the first published work by Charles Schulz; I've had this issue for years and years and can't remember where I picked it up. I've come across various issues of TREASURE CHEST either individually very cheaply or in stacks of comics, sometimes you can buy a package of comics at the antique malls for $10 or $20 with who knows what inside. Anyway these comics are really dry, but as you can see occasionally they serve up exciting stories of fighting young priests who battle PAGAN TERROR.
http://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics557.html
The China story is by Joe Sinnott, who would also ink Jack Kirby for a large part of his run on Fantastic Four in the '60s.
The stories are interesting, in that every single cultural or religious thing that isn't specifically Catholic is "pagan" and must be destroyed, and that you can really see this weird imperialist/colonialist attitude in the face of evidence that imperialism/colonialism is kind of a failure, evidence the comic book story "Pagan Terror" itself shows us.
I kind of walked a fine line with this one as I didn't want to take any cheap shots about child-molesting priests or go out of my way to offend anyone's religion - I don't want to do that unless there are REALLY big laughs involved. But these stories are filled with cheesy mid-century "look at their crazy food and weird customs" orientalism, and I think those kinds of things are always worth highlighting and lampooning.
In other news, "Cosplay Deviants" is dropping their trademark of 'Cosplay Is Not Consent', so everybody that was rolling their eyes at this can relax. I had a few discussions about this elsewhere and the pushback I got was mostly "hey they have good intentions", which first off, presumes facts not in evidence and secondly is what the road to Hell is paved with. The takeaway is that if you want to 'start a conversation' with fandom as a whole, then do it without presuming ownership of something you didn't create and that fandom's been using freely; constructive conversations do not start with unilateral action.
in other other news it's December already. We will be driving south for Xmas in three weeks! Shopping isn't anywhere done. Work's been fairly busy, weather's holding up, the cat is driving us nuts.
Should be some exciting news for the New Year coming soon in terms of conventions and Anime Hell screenings, so stay tuned...
http://misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics557.html
The China story is by Joe Sinnott, who would also ink Jack Kirby for a large part of his run on Fantastic Four in the '60s.
The stories are interesting, in that every single cultural or religious thing that isn't specifically Catholic is "pagan" and must be destroyed, and that you can really see this weird imperialist/colonialist attitude in the face of evidence that imperialism/colonialism is kind of a failure, evidence the comic book story "Pagan Terror" itself shows us.
I kind of walked a fine line with this one as I didn't want to take any cheap shots about child-molesting priests or go out of my way to offend anyone's religion - I don't want to do that unless there are REALLY big laughs involved. But these stories are filled with cheesy mid-century "look at their crazy food and weird customs" orientalism, and I think those kinds of things are always worth highlighting and lampooning.
In other news, "Cosplay Deviants" is dropping their trademark of 'Cosplay Is Not Consent', so everybody that was rolling their eyes at this can relax. I had a few discussions about this elsewhere and the pushback I got was mostly "hey they have good intentions", which first off, presumes facts not in evidence and secondly is what the road to Hell is paved with. The takeaway is that if you want to 'start a conversation' with fandom as a whole, then do it without presuming ownership of something you didn't create and that fandom's been using freely; constructive conversations do not start with unilateral action.
in other other news it's December already. We will be driving south for Xmas in three weeks! Shopping isn't anywhere done. Work's been fairly busy, weather's holding up, the cat is driving us nuts.
Should be some exciting news for the New Year coming soon in terms of conventions and Anime Hell screenings, so stay tuned...
